Historian Ronald Takaki discusses the direction of multicultural education in our nation's complex racial and ethnic climate.

The author delineates the components of programs that help to prevent, abate, and heal racism in schools and society.

How to get beyond the annual celebrations that feature food and festivities to enrich students' understanding of values, history, and struggles for freedom.

A leading authority explores perceptions about gender equity today and updates the facts about gender bias.

Detracking practices can worsen equity related to race and class, this author asserts.

High-status parents often wield more influence over placement decisions than do minority families.

In the quest to prepare for standards-based tests, students are losing out on learning about the cultural complexities that shape our society.

The author examines the arguments for beginning to teach English earlier and phasing out native language learning sooner.

Researchers describe the benefits of one-way developmental bilingual education, an approach through which students use both English and their primary language to learn academic content.

Hispanic, Chinese, African, and Arabic students—all brand new to the United States—adjust to cultural changes at a one-year transitional school called Liberty High.

Speech pathologists offer concrete strategies for working effectively with linguistically diverse students, especially those with learning disabilities.

With its first efforts at integrated education, Northern Ireland is striving to improve relations between Catholic and Protestant communities.

Some scenarios that face children, parents, and teachers as they deal with "typical practice" in the classroom.

From assigning children to work in pairs to allowing them to tell stories in class, here are strategies that address the collectivistic orientation of Latino children.

Group conferences in which parents support one another can bridge the gap between home and school.

The Four Directions Challenge in Technology Project prepares students for a high-tech world as it honors their cultural heritage.

All too often, African American boys get the message that they should succeed in sports, not in classrooms.

Early school experiences left an indelible memory on a Spanish-speaking youngster in an English-only world.